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The Sopranos: The Complete Fifth Season
»rank: 2708
de: HBO Home Video
Chroniques et points de vue: :Facing an indeterminate sentence of weeks/months/years until new episodes, fans of The Sopranos fans are advised to take the fifth; season, that is. At this point, superlatives don't do The Sopranos justice, but justice was at last served to this benchmark series. James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano in a not-so-nice mood For the first time, The Sopranos rubbed out The West Wing to take home its first Emmy® for 0utstanding Dramatic Series. Michael lmperioli and ...
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Father Goose (Widescreen)
»rank: 5938
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Cary Grant's penultimate feature before retirement was this cheerful 1964 effort to overturn his career-long image of urbane sophistication. As the unshaven, messy misanthrope Walter Eckland, a World War ll-era beach bum who monitors Japanese air activity for the Australian navy in exchange for booze, Grant makes a convincingly hard-bitten, hard-drinking antihero. Until, that is, a pretty French schoolmistress (Leslie Caron) and her seven little charges (all girls) survive a nearby plane crash and ...
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Crimes and Misdemeanors (Widescreen)
»rank: 6954
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Some critics and filmgoers have hailed this 1989 comedy-drama as Woody Allen's best film, and while that's certainly open for debate, a good case can be made that it's the most ambitious and morally complex of Allen's films. lt's the kind of movie that provokes heated philosophical debate about the role of God in our lives, the nature of guilt, and the circumstances that would allow a seemingly good, law-abiding family man and successful ...
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John Carpenter's The Thing (Collector's Edition)
»rank: 3016
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Director John Carpenter and special makeup effects master Rob Bottin teamed up for this 1982 remake of the 1951 science fiction classic The Thing from Another World, and the result is a mixed blessing. lt's got moments of highly effective terror and spine-tingling suspense, but it's mostly a showcase for some of the goriest and most horrifically grotesque makeup effects ever created for a movie. With such highlights as a dog that splits open ...
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The Red Violin
»rank: 3016
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential: Written by Don McKellar, [ds4]The Red Violin is a lavish, decorative, and ambitious film about the history of one very special instrument, the music it made, and the people connected with it--from its dramatic 16th century creation in Cremona, ltaly, up to modern-day Montreal. Directed with vision and artistry by Francois Girard, this fascinating and beautiful movie unfolds as centuries of passion and drama are played out around an inanimate object. From ...
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The Waterboy (Widescreen)
»rank: 778
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Adam Sandler vaulted into the $20-million-salary stratosphere with this, his second $100-million hit in 1998--a movie that further shows just how deeply embedded he is in the Jerry Lewis tradition of idiot comedy. He plays Bobby Boucher, a backwoods Cajun and a mentally challenged individual with a fixation on water: specifically, on serving the coolest, most refreshing H20 available to the college football team he has served since he was an adolescent. But when ...
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Congo (Widescreen)
»rank: 5179
Chroniques et points de vue:From :This is a terrible movie. Frank Marshall (Arachnophobia) demonstrates no control over story, actors, effects, or general presentation in this adaptation of a Michael Crichton novel about an expedition into deep, dark Africa that runs into an unknown race of killer apes. The big monkeys attack and attack and attack and have to be fought off with machine guns and lasers--that's pretty much the story, except there's probably an even better one behind 'fourth ...
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Chocolat
»rank: 14723
Chroniques et points de vue:Chronique Amazon.fr: ll y a bien longtemps, dans un petit village du cœur de la France; la vie s'écoule paisiblement, et ce depuis des siècles, jusqu'à l'arrivée d'une mystérieuse jeune femme, Vianne Rocher, qui ouvre une chocolaterie. Elle semble posséder le don de deviner les désirs cachés de ses clients et de les assouvir avec ses mystérieuses recettes. Tous sauf un, l'aristocratique comte de Reynaud, qui voit dans ces chocolats une menace pour l'ordre et ...
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Hellboy (Special Edition, 2 discs)
»rank: 5005
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln the ongoing deluge of comic-book adaptations, Hellboy ranks well above average. Having turned down an offer to helm Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in favor of bringing Hellboy's origin story to the big screen, the gifted Mexican director Guillermo del Toro compensates for the excesses of Blade ll with a moodily effective, consistently entertaining action-packed fantasy, beginning in 1944 when the mad monk Rasputin--in cahoots with occult-buff Hitler and his Nazi ...
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Story of O
»rank: 337
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A milestone of cinematic eroticism, The Story of 0 was an art house sensation in 1975, and it's still worthy of intelligent discussion. As with the controversial French novella by Pauline Réage, reactions to Just Jaeckin's sumptuous adaptation range from moral outrage to masturbatory indulgence, yet this remains one of the few sex films that stand the test of time (and a lot of academic study). Championed by practitioners of bondage and discipline and ...
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